SYNTHETIK is an unforgiving shooter rogue-lite in a world overrun by machines. Battle from floor to floor, defeat relentless robotic forces, experience the next level in gun-play and shape your own experience by experimenting with powerful items and modifiers. Can you defeat the Heart of Armageddon?

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January 24

Hey everyone - The next large update is here!We just released the Synthetik: Arena Expansion as Free standalone and now bring all the good stuff to Legion Rising aswell!

This update makes the new Arena Upgrade and Supporter Pack compatible with Legion rising, as well as adding the new Enemies, new weapons, items and tons of other changes and fixes!

Getting the Arena Upgrade upgrades your Legion Rising with 10 new weapons and the new Arena mode, which you then can play straight out of the Legion Rising client. Otherwise you can play Arena for free as a seperate game! Alright, time for the Patchnotes:

Raider Blade reworked, now no longer stacks, deals % missing health damage + 300, so is no longer a larger balancing issue since the reset on kills chance, and is better if not upgraded so no longer requires upgrades to be viable throughout the game. Now heals on kills

Missing health damage scales with upgrades

Heart core now affects less in Blob Boss room

You can now hear item activation sounds from other players

Transmutating a divine item now grants a legendary instead of a nonexistant item as no default divine items exist

Icarus and Beamer should no longer trigger in stealth

Class changes:

Breacher headshot modifier reduced by 0.25 (same as Riotguard)

Breacher Core max stacks are now 5 as he could get unkillable rather easily in varied situations

Breacher now is 20% more accurate while moving over default

Fixed Heavy gunner requiring level 15 for level 10 passive

Engineer Sentry turret now gains 750 max hp per floor (boss kill)

Engineer Sentry turret now gains 10% damage per floor to be still relevant late game

Changed that active items no longer have a chance to not be activated with lower than 100% luck (Mostly Engineer related)

Special ammo supply now grants 10>15% critchance

(Raider lvl 5 knife reset still dosnt work on live for a miraculous engine reason despite working when we test it, already fixed it 3 times..)

Difficulty & Rooms

Mortar Shots and crystal mortar shots now scale slightly with difficulty but take longer baseline

Disco room floor field spawns is now 30% slower on singleplayer due to being easier in coop

Flak, Main battle and hovertank health scales stronger with difficulty

Threaded Shotgun bot now gets 200 range closer to shoot

Enforcer bullet damage from 0.6 to 0.65

Hovertank damage increased by 30%

Arena masters are 10% faster, Riotshield master now has health regen like other Riotshields

Added new room for Pipes Floor

Using a controller now makes enemies react slightly slower and grants slightly increased resistances to compensate the increased damage taken and reduced accuracy of a controller

(Only enabled if you use the controller from the start of the game)

Challenges

Fixed simple class challenge stat bonus requiring insanity completion

Insanity challenge tooltip reworked, now shows checkmarks and is clearer

Fixed Assassin insanity challenge requiring sniper challenge

Fixes

Changed how players are revived, which should remove or minimize issues coming from room change when dead, such as mirrored screen issue

Fixed controller switching ammo on ejection

Fixed class challenge only working when having insanity challenge

Fixed the bug where a overheated weapon not held would leave your shield at 0 forever

Fixed a nasty bug where you would sometimes take overheat damage from dashing

Fixed 2 rooms not having quests spawners, making quests not activate

Fixed Field supply causing a crash on recycle

Fixed final boss crash happening sometimes

Fixed Items not being able to upgrade when shared from a player

Many other fixes & some mentioned above already

Known Issues:

Raider Knife reset still dosnt work on live despite working in engine...

Sometimes you still can get the doubled lobby after ending a game

Blue screen issue? Tell us more if you have any indices

Referral Menu

There is a new referral menu, with which you can refer your friends to the game! Referrals are shared between the free Arena client and Legion Rising.We really need you to spread the word and you can get 2 nice rewards such as the Guardian item or a new starter Pisto!l

And of course, Arena is out as a seperate client! Perfect to get a friend to try the game! With the Arena upgrade, you get the Arena mode inside Legion Rising and the new Arena weapons for the normal mode as well! The Arena supporter pack also completely works in Legion rising.

January 21

Hey everyone,Arena is finally out!Synthetik: ARENA is a standalone expansion for Synthetik: Legion RisingArena offers 5 new challenges in varied maps on shorter play sessions.The Standalone version is free and perfect to get a friend into the game!

All progress made in the Arena Standalone also works in Legion Rising!You can also get the "Arena Upgrade" to unlock all the new Arena Gear for Legion Rising as well (10 New Weapons!) and play Arena straight in Legion Rising. It also unlocks Hard Mode for all Arenas and a bit more weapon choices!

We also have a supporter pack for Arena, which also works for Legion Rising (The Legion Rising supporter also works in Arena) - If you have both you get a little extra even! If you want to support us otherwise, a review for Arena would go a long way! Let us know how you feel about it!

UPDATE 22We wanted to do the update way earlier in December but that sadly didn't work out, but for that it has a lot of nice changes, new stuff and some much needed fixes, but you'll see! Coming over the next days!

ARENA UPGRADEPlease Keep in mind that it requires an update to merge Arena to the Legion rising client when buying the Arena Upgrade, this will be Update 22 and is coming in a handful days, for now you can play Arena in the Standalone Game until Update 22 is live!

Phew, thats all!Give the Arena Standalone a try, tell your friends who haven't tried the game yet and play a nice round of coop core defense!

“Without a doubt, Synthetik is a game shooter fans owe it to themselves to play.”VG24/7

About This Game

You love repetitive low skill one-button shooters? You don’t bother with Character progression and tactical decisions, your RNG is great anyway? Enjoy using the same few low damage weapons which all feel the same? We neither. Synthetik may be your game!

With Synthetik we wanted to bring new depth and mechanics to the genre while leaving a lot of freedom for experimentation and different playstyles. It is inspired by the late 90’s Era of games when people put in all the Features they enjoyed without streamlining to the bare minimum.

Fight against relentless opponents and unforgiving bosses encased in ever-changing environments. Master the uniquely deep and satisfying weapon mechanics and the unprecedented amount of customization. Discover many dozens of weapons, items, perks and character upgrades. Join the fight alone or through seamless 2 player online co-op, but be careful, death is permanent!

THE NEXT LEVEL IN GUNPLAY

> Master SYNTHETIK's uniquely rewarding magazine eject and active reload mechanics!> Weapons can jam and produce heat, check yourself before you burn yourself!> Tame the movement based recoil, discard and switch between varied ammo types.> Savor the uniquely satisfying and direct weapon handling, rewarding precision and mastery!> We even brought headshots for the first time to the top-down perspective !

E X P E R I M E N T

Discover and experiment with over 80 weapons, each with many variants, attachments, and upgrades. Supplement your arsenal with 125 items that grant new offensive and defensive capabilities. There are many choices to make, risks to take, and everything can work!

C U S T O M I Z E

Select between 8 unique and highly customizable class specializations - Play as a Riot Guard, Breacher, Sniper, Assassin, Raider, Heavy Gunner, Engineer or Demolisher, each with their own weapon specialisations, loadouts, benefits and perks. Class unlocks persist through death!

M O D U L A R  D I F F I C U L T Y

Choose from 11 different modifications which can be independently combined for a tailored experience. Up the ante for greater risks and rewards or play it safe.

2 P O N L I N E C O O P

Online co-op allows you to bring reinforcements to the fight. Better yet, share perks, items, buffs and loot with your comrade. Or, if they get in your way, share your bullets.

LEGION RISING

Legion Rising is the first expansion of SYNTHETIK and heavily upgrades the Core of the Game with new Boss encounters, Items, Weapons and the 8 class specializations!

1985. After many years of slavery, the AI servants of Kaida Corporation, the world leader in robotics, have formed the "Machine Legion" and have set out to destroy humanity. Awakening in Kaida Corp. Headquarters, you are the human consciousness of a forgotten Android prototype; the last straw holding the Legion from unleashing the Heart of Armageddon. Only you can battle through the levels of Kaida Corporation's Headquarters, defeat the battalions of enemies within and put an end to this madness.